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JESTS AND JEERS

The Kwangtung liandicap! Tough me, but many back Soong to win.

I don't take tool merce ewim-milla sonroe,

weather in

Although there were no lavish res exptions yesterday, they all kept

fry the Open Door polley,

Few of our local speakers ever strike, bart dy krep foring.

The thing that keeps a lot of mea broke is not the wolf at the door but the lyer fox in the "window.

Ameriena polley seems to be to turn. Communism Into Communwusin,

2 table with

prazole who hatchet

avow they are burying the

in that they no of wish to do it

in the #ver fellow'n skull.

In mother's day, girls went in fr

TTKUN Kİ security. Nowadays, į they par to be content with ekiteachate existence.

The ways to end a dinner, con- veritation:

f. Adt de lily your right if

married. Should Joven

the

"Yo" nak ber, if the hing

siy

апу

children. If she says "N" ask her here thn doen I.

2. Ask the dady on your left if

she ka marricel. 11 the rays

u

ber if the ins any chikiren.

"No."

3. Ask De Indy necrows from you

if u any children. If she saya

"You" ask her if she's married.

BATTLESHIPS WILL RELY ON ROCKETS

A near future, when the main armamout of a battleship will be guided missiles to counter atom lumbers, is envisaged in the new edition "Jane's Fight- ing Ship," just published.

Jane's contends that the rocket will have Kraduated in

year or two

as the main weapon of a capital ship. amounting to nothing less that a revolution in naval ordnance. Jane's Water that, in the opinion of the -of- Admiralty the implications alomie

mle energy, in a Gong view of the altutim, are by no means limited rut

lo defensiva sap:ets and may

to

nhancement of mival power in modifled form. An atornicul-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1947.

MONKEY

HOUSE

'All right, chum-1

know

what just

you ro thinking."

NO. 2 IN A SERIES OF EUROPEAN REPORTS

Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP

W

LONDON

BUDAPEST

1 ATHENS

HAT fun it must be to be a German. With

MOSCOW

Business link with Borlin'

New boas

hyo ability

Preference

for Germans

Balogh is busy again

Pensions aro the problem

Clearly the right polley would be authorities to on- for the Control courage British and Allied interests

D

The Russian Brides-by ́ALARIC JACOB

way

back-stage

Here's one to help the M husbands...

at

OWN

the Foreign the Terrible, failing to win the Ofice the other day I hand of our Virgin Queen, found them thinking of forbade all Russian girls to taking the problem of the So- marry into "foreign bondage." viet Brides to UNO.

To most of us the affair looks

To them it looks like a viola- tion of the proposed Declaration of Human Rights.

A fow hours before they had heard the Supreme Soviet's decision that the brides may not leave Russia.

'sit before she left from Vislainnity who, Amiling glacially, said: "11 I'd known how good 3. were, my dear, I wouldn't have given you a visa.

crm' afford

yours."

Nor was th

to

lose

Joke: Viinakcy and 'mielent teson for keeping a husband and wife apart,

FW L 15' wound

Fair exchange

To be fair, other brides were as for their ambasadors

Tad

like a petty piece of anti-British country as the bleazlent G. I. bride spite on the part of the Soviet who ever loli Hyde Park for the Government. As such, it makes

sense at all. It has an almost

lunatic tinge.

Men and women I met in many parts of Russin were al- ways telling me that they dearly After experiencing this

wanted friendship with Britain. tragedy of separation at first it is their Government's con- hand in the U.S.S.R., I would stant thome that if Ernest course. The Bevin would only break away suggest another issue is too sad, too pitiful to from "degrading subservience be bandied about over a political to the United States." a new conference table where automa era of Anglo-Soviet friendship te negatives are almost the could dawn. rule. It is a case for something like an international Board of Psychiatrists.

They say:

the IN effect, the Russians seem

to say to us?—

International because Governments of Poland. Czecho- slovakin, and Yugoslavia are even more deeply involved in the affair than we are.

Old ruling

"Though

you marry with.

backwoods.ot Georgia. One had

hysteries after only few days in London, went weeping to Ambassa dor Gusev, and was promptly re- turned to Morcow,

If this were just an Anglo-Sovlot problem, the Soviet Preas might now show us

way out. The Itursin newuper Pravda has been

taking a hullah no about the

of chidren

*Russlan displaced persons: Pravda alleges that they

held British

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camps Germany despite appeals by their mothers to President Schvernille and chairman of

ore

to Lord Woolt:m, as

the British Red Cross.

in

British H. Q. In Germany clains

most of these children be ven who umno!

that

are the

Ifalls choice of returning to Soviet rule cr not, as adults are, because they are too young to decide,

Yet if the mothers In Iya and

And Pravda'n indignation almost suggests the feasibility of a deal which might appeal to the Russian for our mentality:

their children

Americans, speak the same Leningrad can establish the claims language, and visit each other they have made, British public would scarcely refuse to freely, you should prefer the opalon

honour them. friendship of a nation that admits foreigners sparingly. IT is not just a question of whose language most of you and Russian-born Mrs Burke, Mrs will never comprehend, Most of those who stayed turned Price. Mrs Ricketts, Mrs Row whose people you will in no ley, Mrs Squire, and Mrs White- circumstances be permitted to 1.it' fo Ace the Father,

head wanting to be with their marry." He was supposed to be able to fix things

better than the husbands in Brain. even Premier. He claimed to have fixed the original coalition between Smallholders and Communists,

a cup of Turkish-style coffee, and then went,

Gothic

with

rid

When Premier Nagy (rhymes with Hodge) was abdicated last May the little Father also fell from his throne a beautiful piece of old

dak

crimson damask covering its high episcopal back. There was ugly talk of arrest. But he survived.

The next news was that he hal founded

an unti-Communist oppast- tian party. It got 18 seats out of in the el:cion, usefully spitting 420 in the nuti-Communist vote,

Now comes news that the versatile Father, who is Gr son of a dewisa eattie mererant, and has in his time run belli anwspaper and a theatre, for h's anti-Com- is migotiating munist Party to enter the un munist-controlled enalition.

I hope when next i visit Budapest I shall find him back on his episcopal chuig ruling the Ministerial aute- chamber, and busily adding to his tae collection of old masters--many of them acquired since the war.

Not this bus

soon to re- Under-Secre-

Women

of

. It is an urgent problem affect- ing hundreds of

nationalities various adopted who are unable to join their Al husbands outside Russin. ready

the delay has caused several of the wives to renounce their claims in despair.

Above all, this is a psycho- logical problem with its roots sleep down in Russian history. thie might trace it back to Elizabethan days, when lvan

How much

out of us Which makes angels rad absurd pedants out of the Rusalan,

this more complex bag affa.r rearly is! Some brities whi have of the Soviet

read, etme out have been treated cherously by their own Government. Mrs Reemid Matthews, wife of a Paris, Was Brith Journalist in permitted nut only to bring out her British chid but also her daughter by a previous husband.

as

wires.

This would by no means close the for Scorza of Russia's issue,

Polish allies and closest Czech cuand get their w.ves out of Russia, The Polish Press Attache cannot get a visa for his wife, nor the Greek Ambassador for his,

The Chilean Ambassador cannot get a visa for his son's wife. Yet all these marriages are legal under Soviet law.

Soine brides, such

Violetta Prokhorova, nuw of the Sadler's Weus ballet, were ornaments which Russia could i efterå to los..

dokter, a young actress, received a fighting with the

BIGGEST GERMAN LIE

SINCE GOEBBELS

BY GEORGE BOULTWOOD BRITISH officials in Germany arcraft passing overhead.

"There vegetables every day the admit they have been unable 60 your

planes take them to England. HEAR that Sir William Strang.

The stories vary according to in two years of Pots-

now on the Control Commission to kill what they call "the big- to acquire a conununding position in ly propelled warship would have no

in Berlin as Political

is that a Danish shipload of pier immediate refuelling problems, and dam they have got the Ameri- the West German industry.

"tese firms would then have their likely to be called home ser, is gest German lie since Geobbels." locality. One prevalent in Hamburg

Despite all their the period for which it stay at seal.cans and ourselves to abandon

efforts chaps and trotters-a favourite dish Office through radio, newspapers, in Hamburg-had bera ndused entry would be limited only by other and that plan with its restrictions own men in the German concerns, come the Pamanent

men whose job

It would be to know tury of State at the Foreign Henerally Jess urgent problems.

and reparations. Jane's suya there is plenty of sup-

what was going on-and to scotch wen Sir Orme Sargent goes.

Sir William, who is fifty-four, is posters and exhibitions, an in- and had been diverted to Britan..

number of German port for the belief in the aircraft Instead, we are paying them. any new German conspiracies.

Sovjet authorities have the perfect civil servant rather than credible carrier as the capital ship of the tn dollars, too. How they must shown the way. They have taken the perfect diplomat. It's strength people firmly believe that food over the major industrial interests lles in painstaking reliability, in is being exported from hungry of their zone in joint Soviet-German carrying out the policy laid down by Germany to Britain.

others rather then in initiating brave

Public opinion companies.

But the Germans have persuaded new ideas himself.

What fun to be a ́German.

people that all this is wicked.

future.

spuns joetlie.

laugh.

The

Parlour game.

up

น

surveys car- under

Russians' Query

A party of Russian journalists

visiting Hamburg asked to be shown

the printing works where the British Jabels were printed to wrap Guman exported butter.

po

Marshal Tito's son has Just bea In Russia. They say he would like to anarry a Russian girl. But under the decree of March 21, 1947. for bidding foreign marriages altogether this young gallant, who lost un arm

Red Army Starad, will not be able to do so.

Could any law be

mare nicely calcurated to provoke ill-w 11?

If in practice Soviet citizens could ას

10 porn Lied

-ronounce their nationality as a prelude to u foreign narriage, then this law would operate .CNS harshly.

In the past real embarrassment has

tended the

of exclunge ludente, technickns or nouses, be tween Ituzsia and the West because of the wide gulf in living standardai

im- But Ruga's condition slow.y proves, while the West has suffered

decline..

THE

Joint appeal

Governmen's al

Prague, Warsaw and Boigrade, whose! nationals are being deinned in the tame way as ours, are not so much concerned with the new law as with: ho unhappy people who were narooned before it was pared.

Let all the Governments with! A disheartened British Informa- Soviel brides make a joint oppent on officer said: "I have personally conducted several parties of German Hamburg ducks, journalists round

Fest thic and thne, details are The German farmers sell published of two Japanese battle- chipo,

the Munshi Yamato and their grain on the black market,

His advent, to the Foreign Ome ried out by Germans Hyuga Ise, the biggest battleships They harvest 62 percent more

In 1919, however, was a revolution. with the biggest guns ever known. than they report. The German

Sir William, unlike his colleagues, British supervision have shown The full load thisplacement of the sausage manufacturers refuse

had not been educated at one of the month after month the implicit Musaght was believed to be at least

10 dilute their sausage with

big publ'e schools. He did not go belief that butter, oggs, milk, 60,000 tons. The main armament,

to Oxford or Cambric. He meat and vegetables are being let them lock at anything they like, ceding to the evidence of various even the smallest addition of

aludled at London University and sent by ship and plane to the is to whom they like. They saw ships being unloaded, none being Japanese officers, was nine 16-inch whale meat. No crsatz for them.

loaded with food. They couldn Oring 3,220 pounds of

We have paid out £39.625, HE boys the generals 1 Sorbonne in Paris. He had us United Kingdom. pro.

who gave the name "Operation private income.

Ana a single docker who had loaded 000 in dollars for grain imports

Renpeck" to the transfer of

It is a tribute to his ability end

A recent questioning of 6,000 food for export. But stii the British wives to Germany, have and to Germany this year. A bill

the fairness of the Foreign Oflice

the Bri- persists, and I am convinced that Germans throughout to by 180 for a further 30.000.000 dollars hen busy again. The arrangements that lie is to be the new boss.

been mention of Mr tish zone on the distribution of hait te German population bell:ve by which the illegal Jewish - was for August imports is due. reported a 12 5-inch, 10 47 mm. I can hear them chuckle. m'grants are being disposed of in Gladwyn Jebb as a rival candidate. food showed that one in every "-Associated Press.

instead of in Cyprus is Seven years younger than Sir W-night thought food was being The Whine and Ruhr mines Germany

llam, he holds the post of United

exported from both the British Is this facetiousness really neces- Nations Adviser. were provided for in the original di control. Any time now it will

and two catapults are being liberated from British called "Operation Oasis.

Mr Jebb, a colourful personality and American zones. That in- and, a brilliant ideas man. Has cul-formation came out almost in- 12 bombers and be announced, that as a rowurd

tivated the friendship of the Soca Feldentally, as the question was list leaders for many years. He is not part of the questionnaire. a particular friend of Dr Dalton,

тие weight of

the Kuns mounting was belleved tons. Anti-aircraft armament

and 16 25mm..

Two alrcraft

sign. As rebuilt, there ships could ench accommodkite

12 reconnainance airerait. Nether for German good behaviour the bad aircrats on board when in petlon mines will be handed over to a off Cape Engano in October 1945, . German organisation-to

PLOTTED 3,000 STARS

alled tho German Management.

-ånd for us.

be

Coal

UT what about British and Huw the first Astronomer Royalled industrial assets in Ger- any? Are they to be liberated, "plotted" 3,000 stars, and the res

Son King Charles II founded Green-, and handed over to their lirit:sli wich Observatory In 1815, were told and Aldea owners?

by Sir Harold Spencer Janes,

No, sir. Our iron, steel, coal, and

Astronomer Royal. In his inaugural, o interests in Germany will, under

address to the Institute of Navigation at Kensing.on récently:

the new scheme, be administered by Germans appointed by the Ger man economie naministration, What

The Observatory, he said, was the fun! direct result of the need at the time

British firms have £50,000,000 in

for a reliable method of determining Germany (that does not include the the position of a ship at sea. Un- loans), a pathetle remuant of those solved problem was that of finding toren asuits whose loss. Mr Attlee

bewails. But whereas German fim longtitude and nautical works of

in the British zone are ties to ofs- repulo, In to 17th century, the

of their funus, the

the British Arins problem was regarded as insoluble, pose

German firms can safeguard them-

The King was startled at the

are not.

sary?

Who wants ? Englische Pfund

"Celoba-theoringpflich itik) eñasily.abzugeben.

| Autiahiber in Engtasid,)

* English pounds not subject to clearing; available at favour able rate Payable in Britain Ofers to

"

A curious adver Usement le a Zurich hewspaper fani week.

Budapest fixer

L

There has

whose private secretary he was It was added gratuitously by from 1929 to 1931 at the Foreign Germans interrogated by field Ofee, and with whom he went to workers.

the Ministry of Economic Warfare

in 1940. And like Dalten, he is an Elanian..

My information about

Jobb's

. Monotonous Regularity

The rumour Agures with mono-

chances is: "Not this bus. Perhaps tonous regularity in every morale or the Bext."

Greek fashion

public opinion report drawn up by The al- the military government. ligation crops up in most converse- tions between Brilons and Germans: are met with a Protest British

E new Government formed by shrug and a cynical: "Of course you 10-year-old Liberal leader aen, you can't do anything cla Themistocles Sophoulis in but nevertheless I know that t Greece is the ninth since e libera- true. Why only last week my wlic was talking to a farmer who......". tion.

The "farme evidently has never been seen face to face, but usually his tale is something like this:

Every time a new Greek Govern-. ment takes power it appaints a new Nomarchs (Regional Gov- set of emors)-36 of them.

Each new Nomarch oppoints n

that ATEST reports show Father Balogh is running true form. I am glad. He is ny ound favourite figure in South-

"I took my whent (ar potato, or Eastern Europe. One reason: he new deputy and a host of minor cabbage or beet) crop to the railway

10 stone, and affice holders.

slation and loaded it into two trucks. SIL. Gins., weighs

When the Nomarchs are thrown I forgot my hat and went back for The Father was Secretary of State out doesn't care.

the'r dismissed deputies and sh words chalked on the aides of assertion by John Flamsteed that selves against the coming currency to Hungarya Prime Minkter Tilly and by the next goverment the it an hour later. There were Eng

first met m in Budapest, deputies deputies are entitled to

the trucks. My crop was going to the places of the fixed, stars were fetorm by converting their marks when

nio hrare solid assets. British arnis He and Ty, now President, shared pensions

be sent to Engiand," taly in the catalogue of 1500 which

That is ono are not allowed to do this,

the same ante-room, To the left was

reason why Greek Cave 777, and decided to build an

Father, to the right was the civil servants are so miserably pad In Hamburg a shop sold out of What it means is simply this the

vegetables. that they go on strike

The proprietress an observatory, appointing Flamsteed

British Control authorities are al- Premier. the first Astronomer Royal,

Many callera only trented, the Now It is proposid to make the awered the disappointed murmurt Flamelgeda crinogue of 3,000 lowing the Gennans to carry on the stars, publihed in 1725, was mom Nazi wartime policy of treating Bris ante-room as a kind of club. They Nomarche permanent non-political of the queueing haustraus by point- ing dramatically to a Britain-bound and Adilod funds as every exchanged the latest political gossip officials. complete and rech more accurata sh

British European Airways passenger It is not the first mo with the Father's secretaries, drank capital. than any previous star catalogue.

1

with us to Moscow.

This would give Russia a chance to demonstrate that whatever else is

pensio dispute the sanctity of marriage is an accepted premise for the people of the world.

I think, too, it might give Mrs Rowley-a fair chance of joining her

Durham. husband in West Hartlepool, County

DAVID LANGDON

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